Scratch Pad: CMS, “Rez,” AFX
I do this manually at the end of each week: collating most of the recent little comments I’ve made on social media, which I think of as my public scratch pad. I mostly hang out on Mastodon (at post.lurk.org/@disquiet), and I’m also trying out a few others. And I take weekends off social media.
▰ Afternoon trio for foghorn, tea timer, and washing machine
▰ It seems like it shouldn’t matter that I can now quickly post and to update Disquiet.com, which for a few months had a laggy thing going with its CMS. I should be able to just write and post, and a 30-second or even minute-long delay shouldn’t matter. But it really does. That’s how online-first writing, especially blogging, differs from (old-school) writing writing. There’s something fluid to the process of sketching a post, adding links and embeds, making sure it works, hitting post — and often tweaking slightly after. It’s just its own medium, and its own flow.
▰ The readymade haiku of Wikipedia’s notable death listings:
Maldivian footballer
Irish Gaelic games commentator
Cuban judoka
▰ I just learned that you can drag a specific note to the right-hand sidebar in Obsidian, and now all is right in the world
▰ The barber’s electric razor is expressing its sentience by performing a cover of Underworld’s “Rez”
▰ A reflection on the music of Aphex Twin by Alarm Will Sound percussionist Craig Thompson — all about the question of its “beatless”ness, to the nature of tempo, and much more. He’s played Aphex Twin arrangements for many years and has a unique perspective as a result.
▰ I’ve self-published Disquiet.com since the end of 1996. Some articles are backdated prior. I’ve been thinking about reading back through it from start to present, thousands of posts. Tidying it up as I go (a recent upgrade messed some markdown). Anyone here with a longtime blog done such a revisit?
▰ You know you’ve watched a lot of Bill Frisell live performance videos when you’ve graduated from “Yeah, cool socks as always” to recognizing specific shirts, as if they’re as much a part of his repertoire as a given piece of music
▰ Uh, so I’ve been working in an old version of Obsidian for months, not aware there’d been several updates, which explains why tables weren’t working as I’d expected. I must be missing somewhere in the app where it tells you there’s an update available.
▰ Have a good weekend, folks. Listen to an old favorite record. Identify a musician who played a secondary role on that record and listen to a second record that also features the musician. Then listen to a third record, one that’s from same label and time period as the second record. Happy hunting.
▰ And, another week during which I read a ton but finished nothing. Lots of books-in-progress.
